Alright, so now the JASS download should work as intended on the
SAD homepage (www.arch.kth.se/sad, under "projects"->"software").
A few notes:
The download is still a zip which you have to extract, it is
just a zipped jass.jar. Not to bore you with details, but it
appears that Internet explorer (at least) "helpfully" renames
any .jar to .zip if you download it, so now I created a proper
zip containing the .jar file. (jazz.jar_zip.zip is the full name
of the file).
On a related note, concerning the discussion on j-graphs:
Isn't the j-graph (justified graph) the one with a (or several)
root node(s) and the other nodes arranged in levels per step
depth, usually upwards? There are two problems with these
graphs, as far as I know.
One is calculating the measures. Depthmap at home seem to work
fine for this, as suggested.
The other is translating the original graph
(called 'permeability graph' in SLoS, I think) into the
justified graph, which is far from an easy thing to do for more
complex systems. Try an entire public library. It's also a
fairly tricky thing to code, I've been told by many-a
programmers, counter to what one would think. At least if you
want no connections to intersect one another, and especially if
you want them to not do so on the same depth (horizontal
connections in the j-graph).
The primary function of JASS is to help with the second one, and
give you a J-graph which you can modify yourself by moving the
nodes each on their own depth (once converted to a j-graph the
nodes are locked on the vertical plane, but can be moved
horizontally) so you can more easily unclutter the j-graph. As
far as I can remember now, this was prioritised as we worked
with the software, which is still really far from "finnished",
over calculating measures, even if some measures (at least RA
and RRA) can be calculated, and (I think) exported to a table
(at least shown as a table).
Hopes this helps to clarify further if you had any remaining
questions.
/dk
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Daniel Koch
Architect, Ph.D. Student
KTH School of Architecture, Sweden
+46 8-790 79 79; www.arch.kth.se/sad
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